How much revenue did HexON make?

$560–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HexON sell?

Q: How many copies did HexON sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 83 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $560–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 83 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid HexON and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HexON's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–225k

best case 511k (Learn to Fly 3)

Games like HexON

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–225k copies

≈ $61k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Learn to Fly 3 at ≈ 390k–633k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 194 reviews in their first month; the range was 158 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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